Chapter Summaries

Five-year-old Xu Mingxi trained with the Star Crown Sect children while keeping his past life and knowledge of the Douluo Continent hidden. After spending time with his brother Xu Mingguang and their young companions beneath the stars, he reflected that he and Yu Xiaogang belonged to the same generation.

• Xu Chunyi gave the six children sweet water after their morning training, and Xu Fangluo used his Star Crown skills to ease their fatigue.
• Xu Mingxi returned home and recalled his previous life, his transmigration, and how he had learned to act like a quiet child.
• Xu Fangming questioned Xu Mingxi about finishing last in training, while Xu Mingxi accepted Xu Mingguang's greater promise without resentment.
• Xu Mingguang and the other children led Xu Mingxi to a hill covered in Blue Silver Grass, where they gazed at the stars and wondered what Martial Souls they would awaken.
• Xu Mingxi considered the Star Crown and Jadeite Singing Luan Martial Souls and recalled that Yu Xiaogang had been born five years earlier.

Xu Mingxi and three other children awakened their Martial Souls, revealing that Xu Mingxi and Xu Mingguang both had Innate Full Soul Power while the twins could fuse their Martial Souls. The elders decided how the children would train, and Xu Mingxi ended the day feasting on Star Bearing Ox meat as his appetite grew after awakening.

• Xu Mingguang awakened the Star Crown Martial Soul and tested at Innate Full Soul Power.
• Xu Mingyue and Xu Mingxing awakened Star Crown Martial Souls with rank-eight Innate Soul Power, and their powers fused during Xu Mingxing's awakening.
• Xu Mingxi awakened the Star Crown Martial Soul and also revealed Innate Full Soul Power, prompting the Sect Master to order everyone to keep the news secret.
• Xu Chunyi and Xu Chunyue argued over teaching Xu Mingxi until the Sect Master assigned Xu Mingguang and Xu Mingxi to control training and the twins to support training.
• Xu Mingxi's parents celebrated his awakening, while he ate Star Bearing Ox meat and noticed his appetite had increased.

Xu Mingguang and Xu Mingxi obtained their first soul rings in Galaxy Valley, where Xu Mingxi gained the rare Star Calling skill once held by the Star Crown Sect’s level-98 ancestor. The Sect Master ordered the elders to secretly devote themselves to Xu Mingxi’s cultivation, named Xu Mingguang Young Sect Master, and worried that turmoil across the continent might threaten the sect before the boys could grow stronger.

• The Sect Master brought Xu Mingguang and Xu Mingxi to Galaxy Valley, where Xu Chunmian explained that only two suitable Star Calling Cicadas remained.
• Xu Mingguang absorbed the older cicada and gained Star Guiding Art, while Xu Mingxi absorbed the younger one and gained Star Calling, which called down starlight and increased his cultivation speed.
• The Sect Master summoned the elders and revealed that Star Calling had been the first soul skill of Star Douluo, the Star Crown Sect’s strongest ancestor.
• The Sect Master decided to devote the sect’s efforts to Xu Mingxi and appointed Xu Mingguang Young Sect Master, asking him to protect his brother and ordering everyone to keep Xu Mingxi’s potential secret.
• The Sect Master reflected on the Clear Sky Sect’s growing power and the unrest between the great factions, fearing that the conflict would reach the Star Crown Sect before Xu Mingguang and Xu Mingxi matured.

Xu Mingxi’s Star Calling Soul Skill let him master the Star Crown Sect’s cultivation chart almost instantly and draw down starlight that boosted nearby cultivators. The sect elders brought him and Xu Mingguang to the sect’s forbidden grounds, where two ancient soul beasts welcomed them and offered them a place to cultivate.

• Xu Mingxi instinctively circulated his soul power through the Star Crown guidance chart, absorbed the chamber’s starlight, and memorized the chart’s route in moments.
• Xu Mingxi’s nighttime cultivation created a bright Star Road and increased the cultivation speed of nearby Soul Masters, prompting them to call a meeting of the elders.
• The sect master and elders agreed to take Xu Mingxi and Xu Mingguang to a secret place in the Star Crown Sect’s forbidden grounds.
• The sect master introduced the brothers to Vine Elder and Tree Elder, who welcomed Xu Mingxi and offered the two boys a place to cultivate.
• Xu Mingxi was still bewildered when his grandfather carried him back down the mountain.

Xu Mingxi settled beneath the Starry Tree, cultivated with the Star Crown Sect, and reached level twenty after two years. He and Xu Mingguang set out with two elders for the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain their second soul rings.

• Xu Mingxi's grandfather explained that Tree Elder and Vine Elder were Hundred-Thousand-Year soul beasts whose partnership with the Star Crown Sect had developed over thousands of years.
• Xu Mingxi moved to a small house beneath the Starry Tree, where he studied and cultivated alongside Xu Mingguang as the Sect Master and elders joined his nighttime practice.
• Over two years, Xu Mingxi reached level twenty, while Xu Mingguang reached level nineteen; the brothers agreed to obtain their second soul rings together.
• After Xu Mingguang also reached level twenty, the Sect Master assigned the First Elder and Second Elder to take the brothers to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The two elders carried Xu Mingxi and Xu Mingguang along the rough mountain paths, and the group arrived outside the Star Dou Great Forest after several days.

Xu Mingxi searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a soul beast suited to his second soul ring and used his first soul skill to attract one. He found the rare Star Light Grass and began absorbing its soul ring, leaving the result unknown.

• Xu Mingxi and the elders entered the Star Dou Great Forest to seek suitable second soul rings for Xu Mingxi and Xu Mingguang.
• The elders captured a roughly seven-hundred-year Falling Rock Bear, and Xu Mingguang killed it to obtain his second soul ring.
• After half a month without finding a suitable beast, Xu Mingxi used his first soul skill at night to draw star-connected soul beasts toward him.
• The Second Elder subdued a Starry Tiger, but Xu Mingxi asked the elders to carry it to a nearby valley instead of killing it.
• Xu Mingxi found a rare Star Light Grass among the Gathering Star Grass and chose it for his second soul ring.
• Xu Mingxi killed the Star Light Grass and began absorbing its yellow soul ring.

Xu Mingxi gained the Star Gathering and Star Net soul skills, reaching rank thirty-two before the Star Crown Sect sent him out to train. He chose Canghui Academy, and the sect arranged for his age to be concealed while the Second Elder secretly guarded him.

• Xu Mingxi absorbed a Star Light Grass soul ring, gaining Star Gathering and a stronger connection to starlight; the Sect Master praised his talent.
• Vine Elder sensed Xu Mingxi’s unusual affinity for the stars, but Xu Mingxi denied knowing anything about it.
• At twelve, Xu Mingxi and his grandfather defeated a Thousand Year Weaving Light Spider; its soul ring gave him Star Net and raised him to rank thirty-two.
• Xu Mingxi asked where he should train, and the Sect Master recommended Canghui Academy, where Xu Mingguang’s uncle Fangzhuo would arrange his enrollment under the age of seventeen.
• The Sect Master assigned the rank ninety-one Second Elder to protect Xu Mingxi as he prepared to leave the sect.

Xu Mingxi left Starfall Mountain for Canghui Academy, carrying a letter from Chao Yunting to the Chao Family in Blue Sunshine City. He was welcomed by the family, and the academy agreed to enroll him without an entrance exam.

• Xu Mingxi accepted farewell gifts from his parents, then agreed to deliver Chao Yunting’s letter to her elder sister in Blue Sunshine City.
• Xu Mingxi traveled with Xu Fangzhuo and saw refugees suffering under the Barak Royal Family’s harsh taxes.
• Xu Mingxi delivered the letter to Chao Yunwan, who welcomed him and introduced him to her family, including Chao Tianxiang.
• Chao Tianxiang said her daughter Cai'er had a boyfriend, while Chao Yunwan asked her to look after Xu Mingxi at Canghui Academy.
• Xu Fangzhuo told Xu Mingxi that the dean had agreed to enroll him without an entrance exam, provided he displayed his soul rings.
• Chao Yunwan decided to build a good relationship with Xu Mingxi and the Star Crown Sect through the Chao Family.

Xu Mingxi enrolled at Canghui Academy, joined its small Star Dou Class, and met classmates including Wen Tingyu, Zhou Lingling, and Ye Zhiqiu. The next day, his sparring match with captain Luo Yun ended with Xu Mingxi defeated, while Luo Yun discovered that Xu Mingxi’s starlight could strengthen him.

• Xu Fangzhuo brought Xu Mingxi to Canghui Academy, where Dean Wen Liang admitted him to Star Dou Class after seeing his rank 32 Soul Elder cultivation and Star Crown martial soul.
• Wen Liang introduced Xu Mingxi to the class, where Wen Tingyu protected him from Ye Zhiqiu and Zhou Lingling joined them in showing him around.
• Xu Mingxi learned that the six-person class included captain Luo Yun, Yun Ni, and Xiong Lie, and that they could form a Soul Master Competition team with him.
• Xu Mingxi greeted Chao Tianxiang in another class, returned to his dorm, and found the Gathering Star Grass Xu Fangzhuo had brought for him.
• The next day, Luo Yun easily defeated Xu Mingxi in a spar, then realized Xu Mingxi’s starlight could amplify his Starry Tiger martial soul.

Xu Mingxi joined Canghui Academy’s team, where his Star Crown support skills helped Luo Yun’s side defeat the others in training. Luo Yun learned that Xu Mingxi was his Empress’s clansman and should be his uncle, but decided to hide the relationship for now.

• Coach Yan Feng praised Xu Mingxi’s enhancement skill and assigned him to train with the team.
• Xu Mingxi’s support helped Luo Yun’s team defeat Wen Tingyu’s group, and Luo Yun offered to teach Xu Mingxi close-quarters combat.
• Luo Yun told King Luo Yi about Xu Mingxi’s Star Crown, and Luo Yi explained that the Empress also had that Martial Soul.
• Xu Mingya confirmed that Xu Mingxi was her clansman and told Luo Yun to treat him as an uncle.
• Luo Yun resolved to keep the family relationship secret, while Xu Mingxi agreed to hygiene rules with his roommate Shi Chui.

Xu Mingxi accepted an invitation to dine with Luo Yun’s royal family, while the Second Elder arrived to protect him and revealed that Queen Xu Mingya was his older sister. The royal banquet gave Xu Mingxi the Star Luo Kingdom’s backing, and Luo Yun finally relaxed about treating his uncle as a teammate.

• Luo Yun invited Xu Mingxi to dinner at the palace, and Xu Mingxi arranged to go with Grandmother Chao’s reassurance that the Queen shared his surname.
• Xu Mingxi met Meng Shu at Chao Mansion, then learned from Grandmother Chao that the Queen was also named Xu.
• The Second Elder visited the palace and told Luo Yi she had come only to protect Xu Mingxi, prompting the royal family to treat him as someone under a Titled Douluo’s protection.
• Luo Yun guessed Xu Mingxi was much younger than his records claimed, and the Star Luo King told him to care for his uncle.
• At dinner, Xu Mingya welcomed Xu Mingxi as her younger brother, while the Star Luo King called him family and offered him the palace’s support.
• Luo Yun saw Xu Mingxi off and asked him to keep his complaints about his nagging parents secret.

After a year of training, Xu Mingxi and the Canghui Academy team traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest so Luo Yun and Wen Tingyu could obtain fourth soul rings. At the forest entrance, they joined forces with Heaven Dou Royal Academy, whose stronger students looked down on Canghui Academy as the combined group entered the forest.

• Xu Mingxi reached rank thirty-six after a year of training, while Luo Yun and Wen Tingyu reached rank forty.
• Dean Wen led the Canghui Academy team to the Star Dou Great Forest with coach Yan Feng and a Soul Emperor escort.
• At the town entrance, Dean Wen and Director Zhi Lin agreed to enter the forest together despite their old rivalry.
• Zhi Lin invited Xu Mingxi to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, but Xu Mingxi declined and chose to stay at Canghui Academy.
• The Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Canghui Academy students introduced their strengths, and the combined group entered the Star Dou Great Forest.

Heaven Dou Royal Academy and Canghui Academy hunted for fourth soul rings in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Xu Mingxi witnessed Yu Xiaotian defeat a Thunderlight Lion. As Canghui returned home after its hunt, Meng You revealed she had also reached rank forty and needed a soul ring.

• Zhi Lin led the two academies through the forest, and their students defeated a Flame Tiger; Luo Yun gave up its soul ring so Wu Xing could absorb it.
• Ye Chenxing recognized Xu Mingxi's Star Crown Martial Soul and introduced himself, but Luo Yun stepped in to separate them.
• Wen Tingyu gained a soul ring from an Ironclad Rhinoceros, while Luo Yun killed an injured Starry Tiger to claim its soul ring.
• Yu Xiaotian fought and killed a four-thousand-year Thunderlight Lion alone, astonishing Xu Mingxi and the Canghui students.
• Luo Yun finished absorbing his soul ring, and Xu Mingxi reassured him as the group prepared to leave the forest.
• Meng You announced that she had reached rank forty and needed a soul ring, while Canghui Academy departed for home.

Canghui Academy’s team prepared for the Soul Master Competition, traveled to Heaven Dou City, and met Ye Chenxing and his father, Ye Renxin. After reviewing their opponents’ information, Xu Mingxi discovered that Oslo Academy had a level 44 Soul Ancestor and wondered whether his arrival had caused more geniuses to emerge.

• Luo Yun demonstrated his strengthened fourth soul skill, Star Light Bodyguard, and Wen Tingyu showed her Diamond Armor soul skill.
• Canghui Academy trained for several months, welcomed two substitute members, and set out for the Soul Master Competition in Heaven Dou City.
• Xu Mingxi and Luo Yun explored the city, sampled its street food, and met Ye Chenxing and his father, Ye Renxin.
• Dean Wen gathered the team to review information about their opponents, including Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s six Soul Ancestors.
• Xu Mingxi learned that their first opponent, Oslo Academy, had a level 44 Soul Ancestor named Gu Ling and wondered whether his arrival had caused more geniuses to appear.

Canghui Academy prepared to face Oslo Academy in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Competition as the teams confronted the strength of their rivals. The chapter ended with both teams taking the arena, while Gu Ling looked forward to fighting Canghui.

• Wei Wei opened the competition in Heaven Dou City as Canghui Academy and Oslo Academy entered the venue.
• Xu Mingxi stole a glance at Gu Ling, and Zhou Lingling teased him until Luo Yun told them to quiet down.
• Emperor Xue Xin hosted Ning Tiansheng, Feng Xing, Yu Yuanzhen, and Lei Ding, whose quarrel over the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan he used to encourage an alliance.
• Canghui Academy watched the other matches and worried as several rival academies revealed multiple Soul Ancestors.
• Luo Yun gathered Canghui Academy's strongest lineup for their match against Oslo Academy.
• Gu Ling led Oslo Academy onto the arena and hoped Canghui would give her a challenging fight.

Canghui Battle Team defeated Oslo Academy, but Gu Ling’s powerful attack left most of the team injured, and they later lost narrowly to Five Element Battle Team, missing the Advancement Round. After graduation, Xu Mingxi and his teammates parted ways to pursue different futures.

• Xu Mingxi and Canghui Battle Team followed Coach Yan Feng’s strategy and fought Oslo Academy, while Xu Mingxi used his Star Net to bind Si Kong and help eliminate Oslo’s members.
• Gu Ling unleashed his fourth soul skill, plunging the arena into darkness and injuring Xiong Lie, Zhou Lingling, Ye Zhiqiu, and Yun Ni before Xu Mingxi’s starlight ended the attack.
• Xu Mingxi conceded for his injured teammates, and the referee carried them off as Canghui Battle Team secured the win despite suffering serious injuries.
• Canghui Battle Team later lost narrowly to Five Element Battle Team and missed the Advancement Round.
• After the team returned to Canghui Academy, Ye Zhiqiu and Wen Tingyu chose to teach, Zhou Lingling married, Xiong Lie and Yun Ni planned to form a Soul Hunting Team, and Luo Yun returned to the Royal Palace.
• Xu Mingxi said goodbye to his teammates and left Canghui Academy for home.

After waiting out the continent’s rising tensions, Xu Mingxi reached rank 40 and won permission to travel to the Far North Land for a fourth soul ring. There, he encountered Ling Yilan, who became intrigued by him, and both parties entered the Far North Land separately.

• Xu Mingxi returned to Starfall Mountain, where he learned that Spirit Hall’s arrest of Gu Ling had killed Yu Xiaotian and Ning Xue, crippled Xue Xiang, and worsened tensions with the Upper Three Sects.
• Xu Mingxi reunited with his companions, spent his sixteenth birthday at the sect, and reached rank 40, but his grandfather refused to take him for a soul ring while the continent remained unsettled.
• After several months, Xu Mingxi received permission to leave with the First Elder and Second Elder, heading to the Far North Land to hunt a Moon Gazing Toad for his fourth soul ring.
• At the Town of Northern Suppression, Xu Mingxi encountered Ling Yilan and declined her offer to travel together, while her companion Grandma Shuang Lan suspected his escorts were powerful.
• Ling Yilan decided to follow Xu Mingxi into the Far North Land with Grandma Shuang Lan, wondering whether his family could become a powerful backer for her own.

Xu Mingxi and two elders reached Ice Scarred Valley to hunt a Moon Gazing Toad for his fourth soul ring. After they stopped a poacher from stealing the Moon-gazing Toad King's Moon Pearl, Xu Mingxi absorbed a five-thousand-year Moon-gazing Toad's soul ring while the elders questioned the captured intruder.

• Xu Mingxi struggled against the Far North Land's cold until the First Elder carried him into Ice Scarred Valley.
• The First Elder drove off a Flowing Water Leopard, and Xu Mingxi led the elders toward the Moon Gazing Toads' territory.
• A black-clad poacher tried to seize the Moon-gazing Toad King's Moon Pearl, but the Second Elder pinned her with Star Guiding Art.
• The Moon-gazing Toad King swallowed its pearl and fled with its clan, while the elders kept one five-thousand-year toad from escaping.
• Xu Mingxi killed the toad and began absorbing its purple soul ring as the elders interrogated the poacher.

Chen Qingquan escaped after agreeing to gather intelligence for the Star Crown Sect, while Xu Mingxi discovered that his fourth soul skill, Star's Protection, carried a trace of moonlight. On the journey back, Xu Mingxi’s grandfather saved Ling Yilan and Shuang Lan from an Ice Thorn Wolf King.

• The First Elder questioned Chen Qingquan about the bounty on the Toad King's Moon Pearl, then let her go after she agreed to warn Blood Blade Pavilion and provide intelligence to the Star Crown Sect.
• The Second Elder gave Chen Qingquan a token and instructed her to deliver information to Yuelai Inn in Blue Sunshine City.
• Xu Mingxi completed his fourth soul ring and summoned Star's Protection, which contained a faint trace of silver moonlight unlike the skill the elders knew.
• The Second Elder suggested that Xu Mingxi return to the sect so the Sect Master could explain the unusual soul skill.
• Xu Mingxi spotted Ling Yilan and the injured Shuang Lan being pursued by a twenty-thousand-year Ice Thorn Wolf King, and his grandfather killed the beast in one strike.
• Ling Yilan gave Shuang Lan healing medicine and approached Xu Mingxi, realizing that his group had rescued them.

After returning from the Far North Land, Xu Mingxi learned that the continent’s political conflicts had intensified and discovered that his fourth soul ring affected his First Soul Skill. The chapter ended with Vine Elder identifying the radiance Xu Mingxi summoned as Moonlight Essence, prompting Xu Mingxi to wonder whether his martial soul could evolve into a Divine Martial Soul.

• Xu Mingxi saved Ling Yilan and Grandmother Shuang Lan, then parted from Ling Yilan and hurried back to the sect.
• Xu Mingxi learned that Xue Ye had become emperor, Qian Xunji had become Spirit Hall’s Supreme Pontiff, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had strengthened its position under Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Titled Douluo.
• Xu Mingxi showed Sect Master the silver strand in his fourth soul ring, but Sect Master found no explanation in the sect’s records.
• While Xu Mingxi practiced beneath the Starry Tree, Tree Elder and Vine Elder awoke when he used his First Soul Skill, Star Calling.
• Vine Elder drew silvery-white Moonlight Essence from Xu Mingxi’s starlight and explained that it could help the Star Seeking Vine and Starry Tree grow and evolve.
• Xu Mingxi wondered whether the Moon Gazing Toad’s soul ring had changed his martial soul and whether the Star Crown could evolve into a Divine Martial Soul.